Lantern editor-in-chief Everdeen Mason sees Sosa’s ruined mug, weeps in shame.
While surfing the Internet in a sad attempt to avoid work, I came across a shocking discovery. Sammy Sosa is white. A panic attack, some tears and a trip to the bathroom later, I was still upset. Our dearly departed Michael Jackson said he bleached his skin because of a skin condition.
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Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane shows that to be sexy you have to believe you are
Lately I have not been feeling sexy at all. My size zero roommates like to bond aloud about how fat they are (I’m a size eight), my roots are growing in, my eyebrows are bushy, I’m too busy to think about dieting, and my confidence with men is at an all-time low. I assume that everything I say is annoying, and when boys tell me they think I’m beautiful I genuinely think they’re crazy for not seeing what I see. I’ve never had acne like I do now, and of course my roommates love taking pictures to put on Facebook. I wake up every morning and have to look at my ugliness in photograph after photograph.
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Growing up in Ohio, I often dreamt of leaving. Going to plays on Broadway, out to bars in Boston, hanging out at Piccadilly Circus in London or talking philosophy over coffee in Seattle; all of these naïve images were what I imagined leaving small town Ohio and going to real cities would be like.
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Lantern blogger Drew Herrick explores the "science" behind political science
Are medical or legal studies more relevant to the “real world” than physics or psychology? Questions like that are important and formative areas for impressionable undergraduate students, but ultimately the more important questions seem to go unacknowledged.
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Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane says love is more than looks and personality
What makes us attracted to someone else? If you ask me, I’d say I’m attracted to guys who are introverted but intelligent. I’d say I like boys with blond hair and blue eyes. I’d also say I like them tall, but not too tall. Yet there have been many circumstances where I have been blindingly attracted to every aesthetic-personality combo out there! Although aesthetics and personality contribute to the equation in big ways, the one biggest, most important factor is often overlooked.
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Lantern blogger Ryan Connolly urges readers to escape the bustle of everyday life
I went to go see Gogol Bordello with a few friends at the Newport Tuesday night. If you aren’t familiar with their music, they describe themselves as “Gypsy punk,” with the band tracing its origins to the Ukraine and Gypsy subculture that exists there.
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Lantern relationship blogger Ariel Kohane reveals that girls don't want too many phone calls
Courtship in the olden days consisted of a man calling on a woman at her home. The woman would respond by either accepting or denying his company. If she accepted, he would join her and they would converse. If all went well and he wished to see her again he would call on her once more.
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As we enter the realm of midterms, some of us, whether it be due to our own slacking or seemingly impossible workloads, will begin pulling the dreaded “all-nighters” that let us get ahead on school work and behind on life. Purists argue that you have to get no sleep at all in order to really pull an all-nighter, whereas others would classify any night up after 4 or 5 a.
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Who doesn’t like seeing things explode and crash??? About a week ago, NASA deliberately crashed a rocket into the moon in search of ice. CBS gave a decent preview of the event . Although the results could have been entertaining, the actual crash was fairly anti-climatic.
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A man in a weakened emotional state is a turn-off for Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane
On my first date with this guy, everything was going brilliantly. The chemistry was there; our conversation was seamless, and I was starting to visualize him in bed. Unfortunately, while I was off in la-la land, he steered the conversation into the past relationship zone.
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On Sept. 22nd, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a new tobacco law that made the sale but not possession of all “cigarettes with flavors characterizing fruit, candy, or clove” illegal (FDA News Release). The public rationale for this comprehensive ban is that “flavored cigarettes attract and allure kids into lifetime addiction” and that “marketing campaigns for products with sweet candy and fruit flavors can mislead young people into thinking that these products are less addictive and less harmful.
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Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane urges boys to keep it in their pants just a little longer
Alright boys, this one’s for you. It’s a touchy subject, but I recommend you read this because there might be a chance you’re messing up your game and not realizing it. The problem: Pressuring girls. Wait! I’m not talking about sex or even pressuring with malicious intent.
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The Ohio Department of Transportation expects to open Ohio’s new 3C “Quick Start” passenger rail system in 2011. The proposed system would link Ohio’s three largest cities Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland with Amtrak rail services that haven’t been offered in thirty years.
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Lantern relationship blogger Ariel Kohane discusses the pros and cons of rejection
I was a perfect 10 that night. But when I batted my lashes and flashed my pearly whites at Chance, he gave me an unimpressed smile then turned his attention to Aly (A seven at best).
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The recent Community Commitment Day has certainly opened my eyes to the pros and cons of community service. It may seem that there are only pros to community service and it is true that there are only pros to the service side of it. Well isn’t community service about service? During Community Commitment Day this past Welcome Week, it may have been hard to reach that distinction.
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Sex and relationship blogger Ariel Labouche tackles the dos and dont's of drunken courtship
I am all for the drunken hook-up. Let’s be real; it’s fun, releases energy, and it’s certainly not as loaded as actually pursuing someone. Seriously, I am all about it! To get trashed and hook-up post break-up or just because you feel like having a good time with no strings attached is pretty awesome.
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At the recently refurbished, expanded, and reopened William Oxley Thompson Library, the new gallery space is featuring an exhibition titled “Journeys.” A quote in the exhibition is particularly striking: “A journey is not only the physical movement of a person or an object through time and space, but the metamorphosis that the person or object undergoes, even an object’s creation is a journey, a process of transformation over the course of many, sometimes countless hours.
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A man in a weakened emotional state is a turn-off for Lantern blogger Ariel Kohane
On my first date with this guy, everything was going brilliantly. The chemistry was there; our conversation was seamless, and I was starting to visualize him in bed. Unfortunately, while I was off in la-la land, he steered the conversation into the past relationship zone.
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